ATI 9700 Pro Installation Problems

[MuzzleFlashes]

I purchased an OEM ATI 9700 Pro on Ebay and it's turned into a nightmare. When I boot up, after the Windows XP logo I get a black screen with a little yellow square in the upper left corner. I installed the latest Mother Board drivers from the VIA website for my ASUS P3V4X. I have the latest BIOS revision. I have the minimum required 300W power supply. The only clue I have to go on is: after I installed the latest VIA drivers for my motherboard and I boot up with my old card, an ATI 7200, which works like a champ, I get the New Hardware Found Wizard that says "select to install software for the following new hardware: VIA Bus Master IDE drivers". I've tried searching my C: drive everywhere to find any drivers that might please this wizard but the wizard won't accept anything.
Any help would surely be appreciated. I'm starting to think that maybe I was sold a bad card.
Marty
Home made system:
800MH PIII
640 mg Sdram
SB Live Value
ASUS P3V4X Mobo
300 watt power supply




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[rachaelsdad]

IT could be that your PSU is not up to running the wattage needed for the ATI 9700 Pro. Also you may have a conflict with the sound card. You might want to pull the sound card and drivers and see if that changes things.

You can make a new folder on the desktop and open your via files to the folder. Then go into the device manager and manually load the drivers from the folder you made.

 

[MuzzleFlashes]

That sounds like a good idea. How do I manually load the VIA drivers?

 

[Rogozhin]

was the card new?

was what your install procedure?

post your dxdiagnostic please!

thanks!

rogo

 

[agentkuan]

i have EXACTLY the same problems. stoopid screen goes black. i bought mine off Ebay as well. i still havent figured out whats wrong with it. i spent the whole day yesterday researching and trying to fix it.

who did you buy it from (seller name)?
did you get it to work yet? lemme know. this is a pain in my arse.

P4 2.4 ghz
soyo sy-p4x400 dragon ultra motherboard
512k ddr ram
350 watt p/s

 

[Vonkhan]

The power supply is definately a potential problem. I had a Raidmax 350w, everything was jittery and underperformimng till I got an ANtec 400w. Smooth after that. Also check the AGP slot settings. Try doing a fresh install of WIndows. Worst comes to worst and if u wanna dispose off the cards, contact me.

 

[agentkuan]

i figured out my problem. the reason why i was getting the black screen after the windows logo is because my monitor couldnt handle the video card. i bought a new monitor and tried it out and it worked fine. so make sure you dont have an older monitor.